Re: Unable to get into X

On Wednesday 07 December 2011 13:34:48 Joe Zeff wrote:
I'm starting Yet Another Thread here because things have changed enough
that it seems reasonable. On my desktop, I ran this:

yum --releasever=16 --skip-broken distro-sync

and let it do what it wanted, including downgrading several packages.
Then I rebooted. I always see the old progress bar, because of my
nVidia card, making for a garbled screen as the new boot messages came
up, but that's been true since the "upgrade." It tried, tried and tried
some more to bring up the login screen, but couldn't manage it. After a
couple of minutes I rebooted. This time I used the latest kernel in
rescue mode and used telinit 3 to get to a CLI. Looking at Xorg.0.log I
could see that it tried a large number of screen settings to find out
which ones worked and which didn't and couldn't get some xinerama TV
settings to work. (No surprise, I don't have that type of screen.) I
didn't see any obvious error messages, however. If anybody wants, I can
post the file on my website and you can look at it.

Sure, post the link, I can take a look (no promises to have useful advice
afterwards, though :-) ).

While you're at it, post also the /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists, the output
of xrandr, and any nontrivial details about your hardware (a KVM switch
between the computer and the monitor is a typical troublemaker, for
example...).

Best, :-)
Marko


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